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Received: from FAUST.BBN.SAN-DIEGO.CA.US ([199.56.164.6]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA04892 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 11:00:39 -0800 Received: (mfausett@localhost) by FAUST.BBN.SAN-DIEGO.CA.US (8.6.10/8.6.4) id OAA02662 for executor@nacm.com; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 14:03:45 -0500 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 14:03:45 -0500 From: "Mark L. Fausett" <mfausett@bbn.com> Message-Id: <199511101903.OAA02662@FAUST.BBN.SAN-DIEGO.CA.US> To: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: MAE Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk In response to -- > > Does anyone else know anything about MAE and will it possibly work on > Linux?? > > Also, would it work on Solaris 2.4 for x86 machines? I think Apple has a > > sample UNIX users can check out. Stephen Robert Norris wrote: > It's a dog. We have it at work, and it sucks big time. It's slower on > a superSPARC than executor on a 486/66. It also eats heaps of memory. The > only good thing is that it's supported by apple - but I guess that explains the > slowness and size :) > > Stephen Were you comparing MAE 1.x or 2.x? I've run the 2.X series on both HP and Solaris 2.4; Modulo installation difficulties (library problems on the Sun and a kernel conflict with my multicast HPUX9.05), the speed seems pretty reasonable to me; *MUCH* better than the 1.x. mf